"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play it by ear" Ralph Ellison

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On Art and Michael Jackson

Artists, as they say, lose interpretative control over their art. Picasso’s paintings, for example, tell of the disconnect and disjointedness of the modern human mind and the life of disproportion and of a severe crisis of emphasis. His depictions of human anatomy, those circus freaks, reveal a diaspora at the level of limbs and body bulges.

Look at Michael’s moonwalk, his most mimicked move. Unintentional or otherwise, it is the postmodern view of progress: the motions of walking forward while actually moving in reverse, a regression marketed as advancement, steps ahead.